Improvement in rotary air-wheels for gas-carbureters



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JAMES. RsPlENoE, OE BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, AND LOvIAs n. rOWsLEY,

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Letters Patent No. 107,635, dated September 20, 1870.

-IMPRovEMENT IN ROTARY AIR-WHEELS Fon ems-cmmarrrn."ansias.`

The Schedule referred to In these Lettera Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom 'it may concern:`

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drawing, 'which `makes .part of the same, and in whichp y Figure 1 represents a vertical `longitudinal section of a rotary air-wheel embracing ourimprovem-ents, as

applied'to a carbureting apparatus, the, latter being shown in elevation; A f

Figure 2 represents a vertical transverse section 4of g 3, an elevation of the wheel, removed from Our improvement relates paratus; and t t In the accompanying drawing-f- A represents the case, within'wl'iichI the wheel is mounted, by heingsecured in suitable airtight bearings, and which contains the water, or other lnid,` .within which thewheel revolves.

The carbureting apparatus B is of the construction represented in a patent granted to us on the 22d day of February, A. 11.1870, andiis mounted upon the top of the inclosing-case A, in such manner as to be in communication with the ani-wheel by means of a partially closed,Y having an axial opening, G, therein.

Upon the exterior of the cylindernD the buckets H `are arranged, the ingress openings a of each commencing at a point nearthe delivering-openings b of the preceding bucket, and their outer sides, therefore,-

formcurves, eccentric to the axis of the wheel.,

They are arranged in parallel transverse lines on -the outer surface of the cylinder D, so as to leave intcrvening annular channels or spaces, 1, equal in depth to the projection of the buckets, and the', receivingopenings e of` the latter are .arranged spirall y or steplike, and are connected to each other by inclined partitions,"J, which extend across and interrupt the contiuuity of said annular channels I, in such manner as to form inclined vanes or wings, leading from v one ingress-opening to that -of another, the object of which i is to utilize the annular channels by directing the air i and LOVIAS D. Towsnrgof Newark, in the count-y to the construction of a, 'revolvlng wheel-for supplyingairto a carburetng ap- .nels themselves serve greatly to lessen the weight of the wheel, and the expense of its construction. These division-valles J also serve to steady the wheel in its motion by coming in contact with the fluid as it re- (vulves,` thus constituting1 a series of circumferential brakes, to equalize the motion of the wheel, and', as the buckets H gather ina supply of air in their direct course, these oblique wings J Vgather and direct the air, also, into saidbuckets from the intervening airchannels, Y Y p. l

The egress-openings l1 of the buckets communicate with the interior` of'- the cylinder by means of radial tubes, K, extending from the cylinder tov near the within a space or chamber, L, immediately surrounding said axis, and, when the cylinder is once charged, the air lwill be consolidated in said`chamber L,and

the `end of the cylinder. The air, therefore, received Vinto the buckets H, isV retained in them, and their communicating radial tub'es K, and finally delivered at a point where its full force is obtained, without being scattered through the inner area of the cylinder.

. The buckets H and their oblique connecting-Vanesa 'J, and tlie interior radial discharging-tubes K, are made of zine-,which has the effect of preventing the oxidization of' the ironshaft and thetin cylinder, and greatlyl increases the strength and durability ofthe )Thewheel is provided, at its discharging end, with which communicates, by means of the fixed chamber the exterior receiving and distributing-chamber P, fromwhich latter theair is supplied, through the pipe C, to'tlie carbureting apparatus.

The wheel is immersed in water orpother fluid, Vtoa line just above its "axis, and the air'is forced through the buckets and their communicating radial `tubes by the water, or other uid, in a manner common to air-wheels revolving in fluid;

j Having thus "described our invention,

*We claim+ 1. The cylinder 'of an airwheel, constructed with buckets H, and intervening circumferential channels I, in the manner and for the scribed.

Y 2. The intervening circumferential channels I ofthe air-wheel,' hav-ing their continuity interrupted by the motion of the wheel Atherefrom obliquely into the buckets, while the chan.-

nected to each other by means of oblique vanes, J,

axis VVE thereof, so as to deliver the air continuously i directed more readily through the axial opening G at i wheel, as Well as improves the quality of the vapor.

the usual air-chamberM, which revolves with it, and

N, located therein, through an axial tube, O, with purpose hereinbefore demeans of vanes, J, which serve as brakes, to equalize f 3. '.lhe ingress ends cof the-air-buckets H, coml for the purpose of directing the air from the circumferential channels I into said buckets, thereby utilizing the intervening spaces, to increase the volume of air to the buckets, substantially as'herein described'.

4. 'l` he external curved buckets H, in combination with the interior radial discharging-tubes K, arranged upon and within a single cylinder, D, substantially as llereing described.

5. The arrangement of the radial air-tubes K, in such manner as to discharge the air in a space or chamber, L, immediately around the axis of the wheel, thereby increasing its volume directly in the line of the axial opening G in the discharging end ofthe cylinder, substantially as herein described.

(i. The combination in a rotary air-wheel, of the external curved buckets H, the circumferential intervening channels I, the oblique division and connecting-Yanes J, and the interior radial discharging-tubes K, the several parts constructed, arranged, and open ating substantially as herein described.

7. The cylinder of tin, prevented from oxidization by means of zine receiving-buckets H and oblique Yanes J, arranged on the exterior thereof', and radial discharging zine tubes K on the interior thereof', as described.

JAMES F. SPENOE. L. D. TOWSLEY. Witnesses:

DAVID THORNTON, THEO. HALL. 

